Military Ranger Patches History

Below are the First through Ninth
Battalion scrolls. All were approved for local wear only.
The First through Sixth Ranger Battalions were formed as elite
commando units. They were trained as raiding parties and were
used to accomplish the army's most impossible assignments. The
mission taken on by the Second Ranger Battalion, which involved
scaling the high cliffs at Point du Hoc, Omaha Beach, on D-Day,
demonstrates the danger of their assignments. Half of the 900
rangers of the First Battalion became casualties on the beaches at
Anzio. Few survivors from the Third Ranger Battalion could tell
stories about the terrible suffering in the valley of San Pietro,
Casino, Anzio and Cisterna. During the terrible fighting at
Anzio and at the town of Cisterna di Littoria, the Fourth Ranger
Battalion was literally cut to pieces while trying to hold the line
against a vastly superior number of Germans. The Fifth Ranger
Battalion, along with the Second Battalion, made the perilous assault
on the enemy coastal battery located on the cliffs of Point du
Hoc. Among the well-known exploits of the Sixth Ranger Battalion
was theirr aggressive search-and-destroy mission against the Japanese
prior to the invasion of the Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines and
their famous dash to the Cabanatuan prison camp 29 - 30 January 1945.

Ranger Bn Scrolls

Worn from: June 1942 - 15
August 1944.

Worn from: December 1943 - 23 October 1945.

Worn from: May 1943 - 15 August 1944.

Worn from: June 1943 - 24 October 1944.

Worn from: January 1944 -
22 October 1945.

Worn from: September 1944 - 30 December 1945.

Not activated.

Not activated.

Not activated.

Abn Ranger Scrolls

All unauthorized (Korean
War).

Worn from: 28 October 1950 -
1 August 1951.

Worn from: 23 February 1951
- 1 August 1951.

Worn from: 28 October 1950 -
1 August 1951.

Worn from: 28 October 1950 -
1 August 1951.

Worn from: 20 November 1950
- 1 August 1951.

Worn from: 20 November 1950
- 1 August 1951.

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